2 Samuel 2:7

2:7 Now be courageous ¹  and prove to be valiant warriors, for your lord Saul is dead. The people of Judah have anointed me as king over them.”

2 Samuel 2:11

2:11 David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah for seven and a half years. ² 

2 Samuel 2:32

2:32 They took Asahel’s body and buried him in his father’s tomb at Bethlehem. ³  Joab and his men then traveled all that night and reached Hebron by dawn.

2 Samuel 4:5

4:5 Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite – Recab and Baanah – went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish-bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.

2 Samuel 5:11

5:11 King Hiram of Tyre ⁴  sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons. They built a palace ⁵  for David.

2 Samuel 6:5

6:5 while David and all Israel ⁶  were energetically celebrating before the Lord, singing ⁷  and playing various stringed instruments, ⁸  tambourines, rattles, ⁹  and cymbals.

2 Samuel 6:10-11

6:10 So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 6:11 The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. The Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his family. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 7:5

7:5 “Go, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord says: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in?

2 Samuel 7:19

7:19 And you didn’t stop there, O Lord God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. ¹¹  Is this your usual way of dealing with men, ¹²  O Lord God?

2 Samuel 9:4

9:4 The king asked him, “Where is he?” Ziba told the king, “He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.

2 Samuel 11:9

11:9 But Uriah stayed at the door of the palace with all ¹³  the servants of his lord. He did not go down to his house.

2 Samuel 13:7-8

13:7 So David sent Tamar to the house saying, “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare some food for him.” 13:8 So Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, who was lying down. She took the dough, kneaded it, made some cakes while he watched, ¹⁴  and baked them. ¹⁵ 

2 Samuel 14:9

14:9 The Tekoan woman said to the king, “My lord the king, let any blame fall on me and on the house of my father. But let the king and his throne be innocent!”

2 Samuel 17:18

17:18 But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.

[2:7]  ¹ tn Heb “let your hands be strong.”

[2:11]  ² tn Heb “And the number of the days in which David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.”

[2:32]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[5:11]  ⁴ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[5:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “a house.”

[6:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “all the house of Israel.”

[6:5]  ⁶ tc Heb “were celebrating before the Lord with all woods of fir” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). If the text is retained, the last expression must be elliptical, referring to musical instruments made from fir wood. But it is preferable to emend the text in light of 1 Chr 13:8, which reads “were celebrating before the Lord with all strength and with songs.”

[6:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “with zithers [?] and with harps.”

[6:5]  ⁸ tn That is, “sistrums” (so NAB, NIV); ASV, NASB, NRSV, CEV, NLT “castanets.”

[6:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “house,” both here and in v. 12.

[7:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “and this was small in your eyes, O Lord God, so you spoke concerning the house of your servant for a distance.”

[7:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “and this [is] the law of man”; KJV “is this the manner of man, O Lord God?”; NAB “this too you have shown to man”; NRSV “May this be instruction for the people, O Lord God!” This part of the verse is very enigmatic; no completely satisfying solution has yet been suggested. The present translation tries to make sense of the MT by understanding the phrase as a question that underscores the uniqueness of God’s dealings with David as described here. The parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:17 reads differently (see the note there).

[11:9]  ⁸ tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation lacks the word “all.”

[13:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “in his sight.”

[13:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the cakes.”